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Top 25 Social Impact Startup Investors in Japan in September 2025

A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social impact startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social impact companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Social Impact Startup Investors in Japan in September 2025

Investor Social Impact Japan investments
Z Venture Capital 2
ANRI 2
MPower Partners 1
Money Forward Venture Partners 1
Mint 1
Japan Finance Corporation 1
Tatsuo Sakamoto 1
Katsuhiro Tamukai 1
Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union 1
Hiroshima Venture Capital 1
Kenji Kasahara 1
Taliki 1
Kiraboshi Bank 1
Takashi Okutani 1
Maiko Kojima 1
Japan Finance Corporation 1
SIIF 1
Keito Noguchi 1
Koichi Noda 1
Kazuhide Hashida 1
Toru Ei 1
F Ventures 1
Kyung wook Han 1
Mitsunobu Okada 1
Takuma Iwai 1
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Z Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • mahocast — Mahocast operates a comprehensive business platform that supports every stage of an artist’s journey—from initial planning and content production to ongoing management and promotion.
  • Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.
  • Aim Intelligence — Leading AI Security & Safety Solutions Provider - Specializing in AI Risk Detection, Mitigation, and Elimination through Advanced Red Teaming and Defensive Systems | Leading provider of AI Security, Safety, and Compliance solutions
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Chorakuchoju — Chorakuchoju is a healthcare organization that tries to avoid isolation by implementing AI technologies and medical services.
  • Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
  • Strand Therapeutics — Strand Therapeutics is developing the first platform for creating programmable mRNA drugs to deliver precise, multi-functional, potentially curative treatments.
MPower Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 14 investments in the past 12 months
MPower Partners empower bold, globally-minded entrepreneurs providing tech-enabled solutions to societal challenges.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Consulting, Health Care
  • Series B, Series C, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Ichirou — Ichirou provides digital senior care support services to connect elderly people with caretakers. It offers caretaker services for different types of support, including housework, hospital care, nursing, hospital and doctor visits, and shopping assistance.
  • NaLaLys — NaLaLys is a business consulting firm that provides management, distribution, research, and consulting services.
Money Forward Venture Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
  • ARCS — ARCS specializes in developing assisted reproductive medical devices using robotics and artificial intelligence technology.
Mint VC Fund · Higashi, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Airato — Airato specializes in the development of radiation therapy using artificial intelligence technology.
  • LiftBase — LiftBase is revolutionizing the recruiting structure using AI and social data.
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
Japan Finance Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 39 investments in the past 12 months
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
  • Dr.’s Prime — Doctor's Prime is a technology company that provides is a part-time job information service for optimizing the working style of doctors.
Tatsuo Sakamoto Angel
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Katsuhiro Tamukai Angel
Katsuhiro Tamukai is a COO of Cost Science.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union VC Fund · Yotsuya, Kyoto, Japan
Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union is provides financial services.
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Investment focus
  • B2C, Rental, Wellness
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
  • Mediclo — Mediclo is a real estate company that provides renting, property management, and B2C services.
  • Otetsutabi — Otetsutabi is a regional revitalization platform that offers the opportunity for participants to help at accommodations and breweries in rural areas that struggle with seasonal labor shortages. The locals offer transportation expenses and places to stay in return, so participants can travel to the areas with ease.
Hiroshima Venture Capital VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Hiroshima Venture Capital provides venture capital investment services. The firm creates corporate value from a long-term perspective.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, E-Commerce
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
  • Tenchijin — Tenchijin is optimiz human civilization using space big data.
Kenji Kasahara Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
Born in 1975, Kenji Kasahara grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo. Inspired by the case studies of IT business he studied in a university seminar on management strategy and by the rapid rise of Internet business in Silicon Valley in the USA, he started up “Find Job !”, an online jobinformation site, in 1997. In 1999 Kasahara established eMercury, Inc. (mixi, Inc.) and assumed the post of representative director.
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Investment focus
  • Aerospace, Information Technology, Robotics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
  • ONE — One is a Japanese startup. It primarily creates and operates consumer apps, some of which have been sold to publicly traded Japanese corporations.This runs the BeReal exchange application "BeMatch."
  • Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
Taliki VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
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Investment focus
  • Cooking, Retail, Children
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
  • CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
Kiraboshi Bank VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Kiraboshi Bank starts by merging Tokyo Tomin Bank, Yachiyo Bank, and ShinGinko Tokyo on May 1, 2018.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Recruiting, Health Care
  • Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
  • Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
  • Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.
Takashi Okutani Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Takashi Okutani Graduated from University of Washington( Seattle WA) 1997 Enter Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. 1997-2000 working at MUJI store in Tokyo Japan 2000-2002 be seconded to trading company called Sanyei Detschland GmbH(cooperated trading company) 2003-2007 working at household division & joined to establish MUJI in-house design office,mainly taking care of the project called World MUJI 2007-2010 working at Apparel Divison. Produced MUJI’s Iconic item called 90 Degree Sock. 2010-2015 General Manager of WEB Business Divison. Produce MUJI passport 2015-Join Oisix as Chief Omni-Channel officer.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Maiko Kojima Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Co-Founder and Vice President CTO/CFO at Prime Again Inc.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Japan Finance Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan, India, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
  • Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
  • Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
SIIF VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
SIIF aims to identify and support projects that contribute to the solution of social issues.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series D
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
  • CureApp — CureApp is a digital health startup.The firm is one of the leading players in the medical app vertical under the theme of “app exhibits therapeutic effects against diseases” and launched a nicotine addiction treatment app in February 2015, which was jointly developed with Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Keio University’s School of Medicine. It iscurrently conducting clinical trials in many locations.
  • kokohore Japan — kokohore Japan offers advertising services intended to help companies sell their products. They provide custom-made promotion planning, provide the content to the media to plan and manage owned media, and assist in product development, providing businesses with the assistance they need to survive.
Keito Noguchi Angel
Keito Noguchi is a Brave group Representative Director, and Angel Investor.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Koichi Noda Angel
Koichi Noda - Chief Human Resources Officer @ Works Human Intelligence
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Kazuhide Hashida Angel
Born in Tokyo in 1983. After graduating from Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Engineering, worked at NTT DATA Corporation. He retired after a year and a half and started working as an engineer with almost no experience at Ururu Co., Ltd. After working for 4 years and 3 months, he founded Peraichi Co., Ltd.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Treasure in Stomach — Treasure in Stomach is a food manufacturing company that develops vegan, gluten-free, and Muslim-friendly products and content.
Toru Ei Angel
Toru Ei is a Kaizen Platform CGO, and Beautydoors CEO.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
F Ventures VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
  • Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
Kyung wook Han Angel
Kyung-wook Han is an Individual Investor.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Mitsunobu Okada Angel · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsunobu Okada is the founder and CEO of Astroscale.
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Investment focus
  • Farming, Wellness, Lifestyle
  • Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
  • Towing — Towing is an agricultural company that provides farming, manufacturing, and recycling services.
Takuma Iwai Angel
Takuma Iwai Co-CEO of Advisor Time.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
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